Data management system for an analyzing apparatus

• US 8,260,867 B2
• Filed: 03/23/2006
• Issued: 09/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
• Original Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
• Inventors: Katsuyama, Yuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Recek, Jason
• Application Number:
  US12/282,258
• Publication Number:
  US 20090037549A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,357 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206, 709/207
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 30/8651 Recording, data aquisition, archiving and storage
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/00871 Communications between instruments or with remote terminals

Abstract

When an analysis is finished in the GC/MS 11, which is an analyzing apparatus, and a file including the data obtained by the analysis is created by the analysis data file creator 13, the file transfer processor 14 sends the file to the web server 2 by way of the intranet 4. The file transfer processor 22 converts the data received into a format capable of being posted on a web page and stores it in the memory 21, and simultaneously notifies the analysis unit 1 of a link address for reading it out. The e-mail creation processor 15 creates an e-mail with the link address in the body and sends it to a predetermined mail address. The user receives and opens the e-mail on the mailer 31 of the client terminal 3 and clicks a link address corresponding to the desired analysis data. In response to this operation, the web server 2 sends the corresponding data to the terminal 3, which allows the analysis data to be viewed by the web browser 32.

Claims

1. A data management system for an analyzing apparatus, including:

a computer configured to control an analyzing apparatus and to receive data obtained by the apparatus;

a web server realized by the computer itself or by another computer connected to the computer so that they can mutually communicate; and

a network in which they are connected,

the computer comprises;

a data transfer processor configured to transfer a data file created in accordance with a performance of an analysis by the analyzing apparatus to the web server; and

an e-mail creator configured to create an e-mail including link information sent from the web server in correspondence to a data transfer by the data transfer processor and to send the e-mail over the network to a predetermined e-mail address; and

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the web server comprises;

a web data transfer processor configured to convert the data file sent from the data transfer processor into a data format viewable on a web and for storing it in a web data memory;

a link information notifier configured to return link information for reading out data stored in the web data memory to the computer; and

an access processor configured to, in the case where a readout command presenting link information regarding data stored in the web data storing means is received through the network, read out data corresponding thereto and for sending them to a command source;

the analyzing apparatus is measuring device; and

the system is configured to perform, when a plurality of analyses are sequentially performed by the analyzing apparatus, the e-mail creator puts together, after all of a series of the analyses are completed without an intervening operation, pieces of link information received in correspondence to transfers of data files for all the analyses and sends them in one e-mail, in which each of the pieces of link information respectively corresponds to each of the data files.

2. The data management system according to claim 1, wherein the analyzing apparatus is a spectrometer.